Here’s the thing: I spent my formative years—basically, from the age of 12 until my mid-20s—feeling not “entitled,” not “privileged,” but terrified. I was terrified that one of my female classmates would somehow find out that I sexually desired her, and that the instant she did, I would be scorned, laughed at, called a creep and a weirdo, maybe even expelled from school or sent to prison. You can call that my personal psychological problem if you want, but it was strongly reinforced by everything I picked up from my environment: to take one example, the sexual-assault prevention workshops we had to attend regularly as undergrads, with their endless lists of all the forms of human interaction that “might be” sexual harassment or assault, and their refusal, ever, to specify anything that definitely wouldn’t be sexual harassment or assault. I left each of those workshops with enough fresh paranoia and self-hatred to last me through another year.

My recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man, or best of all, completely asexual, so that I could simply devote my life to math, like my hero Paul Erdös did. Anything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which for me, meant being consumed by desires that one couldn’t act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness.

Of course, I was smart enough to realize that maybe this was silly, maybe I was overanalyzing things. So I scoured the feminist literature for any statement to the effect that my fears were as silly as I hoped they were. But I didn’t find any. On the contrary: I found reams of text about how even the most ordinary male/female interactions are filled with “microaggressions,” and how even the most “enlightened” males—especially the most “enlightened” males, in fact—are filled with hidden entitlement and privilege and a propensity to sexual violence that could burst forth at any moment.

Because of my fears—my fears of being “outed” as a nerdy heterosexual male, and therefore as a potential creep or sex criminal—I had constant suicidal thoughts. As Bertrand Russell wrote of his own adolescence: “I was put off from suicide only by the desire to learn more mathematics.”

At one point, I actually begged a psychiatrist to prescribe drugs that would chemically castrate me (I had researched which ones), because a life of mathematical asceticism was the only future that I could imagine for myself. The psychiatrist refused to prescribe them, but he also couldn’t suggest any alternative: my case genuinely stumped him.

Vote for one of the entitlement princesses in the poll below. Remember you are voting for the biggest entitlement princess, not necessarily the most evil woman or the most violent woman or the most insane woman or the biggest whore. (In this particular case, don’t reflexively vote for Amanda Marcotte.)

Who is your vote for the December 2014 Entitlement Princess Of The Month?

As ever, Mad Mandy puts a strong case for my vote, particularly since it appears she was arguing against what she wished this guy had written rather than what he actually did write. Still, I voted for Laurie Penny for an epic hijacking of Catholic ideology. What is her talk of ‘structural oppression’ other than a feminist version of Original Sin? No matter what a guy does, no matter how objectively awful his life is, it turns out he has Original Privilege.

Actually, it’s worse than Catholicism. At least the Church teaches that there is hope of redemption. Feminists cite supposed male privilege as grounds to victimise all men everywhere, indefinitely.

But what really pushes Loony Laurie over the top is that fact that Little Ms Privilege-Finder General herself isn’t exactly a stranger to privilege. On the contrary, she supported herself through her early career/hobby of writing man hating screeds using a sizable trust fund left to her by a grandparent. That’s what counts as being oppressed in Laurieland.

“I’m not a doctor, but I can imagine that it’s nearly impossible to help someone who is more interested in blaming his testicles, feminism, women generally, or the world for his mental health problems than to actually settle down and get to work at getting better. Perhaps actual therapists might want to weigh in on how you handle cases like this.”

As always, swapping the genders is fun:

“I’m not a doctor, but I can imagine that it’s nearly impossible to help someone who is more interested in blaming her vagina, patriarchy, men generally, or the world for her mental health problems than to actually settle down and get to work at getting better. Perhaps actual therapists might want to weigh in on how you handle cases like this.”

Germane to that discussion:https://alphaisassumed.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/foreshadowing/
Winning lines:
“Okay, not quite monopolize: it’s perfectly acceptable for a reliable, unexciting guy to marry a 31 year-old after she’s “found herself” for a decade or so. If he can’t get laid in his twenties, sucks to be him. If he wants to get married when he’s young, he’s probably a misogynist pig who just wants to tie some poor girl down with babies.

Tell a king of the financial markets that he should consent to having stolen share his assets for the good of society, lefties applaud and nod in agreement. Tell a queen of the sexual markets (a young woman) that she should share her assets for the good of society, and you deserve ostracism and/or death.

I’m of the sincere opinion that no unmarried person of either gender is entitled to sex from anyone else. Were I to have told this to Elliot Rodger, feminists worldwide would have nodded in approval. Were I to tell this to Louis CK’s chunky friend, they’d want my head on a stick.”

I did some more reading of that blog, and it turns out the group that they keep creating genocide proposals for is men. If it’s an accomplishment to go 2 threads without proposing the genocide of men, that tells you everything you need to know about feminists/SJWs.

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Lindsay Meisel here. I don’t know how I happened upon this year-old post, but I did. I’m confused: my post was defending Scott Aaronson from crazy extremists like Marcotte and her ilk. I was so disgusted by the whole situation that I actually wrote Aaronson an email to let him know how much I supported him.

Did you even read my post? It was pretty obvious that the bit about being short was to highlight the ridiculousness of identity politics.